Sarah Moore patrols council tips, intercepts items destined for landfill and passes them to a rotating stable of designers who turn them into sellable pieces. Any profit heads back to the original owner. The 45-minute BBC One format, narrated by Arthur Smith, has run for seventeen series since 2015 and clocked up 320 episodes.
Jay Blades fronted the show from series 3 to 10 before his Repair Shop commitments intervened; Jacqui Joseph and JJ Chalmers now alternate presenting duties. EJ Osborne, who joined in 2017, left during series 7 and died in 2020. The long-serving design roster includes Rupert Blanchard, bag-maker Neil Wragg, Forge Creative’s Josh Kennard and Oli Milne, and metal-worker Bex Simon.
Celebrity Money for Nothing, a single-series spin-off in 2017, swapped members of the public for famous faces but kept the profit-for-trash model intact. Earlier runs stream on Netflix, while new episodes drop on BBC iPlayer shortly after broadcast.
Production Details
BBC Two / 17 Seasons / 360 Episodes / 2015 - Present
Showrunner(s): Jules Kean, Michelle Friel
Producer(s): Rebecca Munro, Martyn Bon
Main Cast
Sarah Moore as Self - Presenter
Arthur Smith as Narrator (voice)
Jay Blades as Self
Jacqui Joseph as Self - Presenter
JJ Chalmers as Self - Presenter
EJ Osborne as Self
